Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ultimate greek beef stifado. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ultimate greek beef stifado using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Ultimate Greek beef stifado:
- Make ready MARINADE:
- Prepare 2-3 sprigs rosemary
- Make ready 2-3 dry bay leaves
- Get 1 tbls dried Greek oregano
- Take 150 ml red wine
- Make ready 2 tbls white wine vinegar
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves peeled and crushed with the back of a knife
- Get 4 whole cloves
- Get 1 cinnamon stick, broken into large pieces
- Make ready A few gratings of nutmeg
- Prepare FOR THE BEEF:
- Take 1 kg good quality beef diced
- Prepare 6 tbls extra virgin olive oil
- Make ready 1.2 kg shallots or small onions, peeled
- Get 400 g chopped tomatoes
- Take 2 tbls tomato purée
- Take 1 beef stock cube
Instructions to make Ultimate Greek beef stifado:
- Place all the marinade ingredients together and combine. Add the beef, mix well, cover and refrigerate overnight.
- When you’re ready to cook, set the oven to 180C fan assisted.
- Drain the beef as well as possible, keeping the marinade juices. Strain and set aside.
- Heat 2 tbls of the olive oil in a large frying pan and cook the shallots for about 8-10 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
- In the same frying pan, add 2 tbls olive oil and sear the beef on all sides and then place in a casserole dish. You will need to brown the meat in batches. Don’t turn it too much whilst searing as this will reduce the temperature of the pan.
- Place the remaining olive oil in the frying pan and pour in the reserved marinade, the chopped tomatoes, the tomato purée and the beef stock. Bring to a boil and then pour onto the beef.
- Cover the casserole with a lid and place in the oven for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour add the shallots to the casserole, mix, cover with a lid and cook for a further hour or until the meat is tender.
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